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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355228 ; 355 69 ;
Abstract
An image forming equipment in which a fluorescent lamp is so preheated by controlling the current flowing level for the fluorescent lamp on non-copying after the power source is turned ON such that light energy of the fluorescent lamp becomes an appointed value according to the ON state of the fluorescent lamp on copying when controlling the light energy of the fluorescent lamp in accordance with the signals which come from the light energy detecting means provided at an end part of a fluorescent lamp which is provided in the width direction of the document to read a document image and copy the same by reflecting light to the image surface of the document.